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Other. Both are very handfomely and commodioufly 

 fitted up, and the former fo fpacious as to accommo- 

 date five hundred perfons at a time. The pavillion of 

 the reftaurateur is divided into four-and-twenty cabi- 

 nets, where feledt parties, unfeen by the reft of the 

 company, may fit together, and be fupplied with the 

 fineft delicacies the feafon affords. Two billiard tables 

 are to be at the fervice of the fubfcribers, in two elegant 

 apartments kept folely for that purpofe. Eight large 

 ftoves, and five particular fire-places to be kept burning 

 all the winter through, and thick carpets fhall cover the 

 floor of the lower gallery, to preferve the feet of the 

 company from cold. In the fummer, as the whole 

 difpofition of the undertaking lhews, an agreeable 

 coolnefs will prevail, even in the moft fultry days. 

 The fubfcription price for the year is feventy-two 

 livres ; a half year eight-and- forty ; and for a quarter o£ 

 a year, fix-and-thirty. The fubfcriber receives a ticket, 

 which however can only admit himfelf. Tickets of ad- 

 miflion may likewife be had for one day, at fix-and- 

 thirty fous, which muft be given at the door, and for 

 which the perfon will receive a check containing the 

 word, Rafraichiffement, entitling him to demand of 

 the reftaurateur a carafon of wine and bread, and, of the 

 coffee-man a cup of coffee or a tumbler of limonade or 

 orgeat. The fubfcribers do not receive this check. 

 On days when the court or the duke of Orleans, or 

 other noble perfonages, chufe to give a fete in. the 

 circus, the rights of the fubfcribers are fufpended, as 

 alio when the undertaker gives a fete for the benefit of 

 the poor. 



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